Vadim Shishimarin, 21, a former tank sergeant in the Russian army, was today confronted in court by Kateryna Shelypova - whose husband Oleksandr he killed with a shot to the head on February 28.
Vadim Shishimarin, 21, answered yes when asked by prosecutors at a Kyiv court whether he was guilty on charges of war crimes shooting 62-year-old Oleksandr Shelypov in the head on February 28.
A 21-year-old Russian soldier went on trial Friday in Kyiv over the killing of an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, marking the first war-crime prosecution of a member of the Russian military after 11 weeks of war in Ukraine.